A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:11 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 281 km (174 miles) East from Ambon, Mol...

The events of 1989 are crucial to any understanding of the present world. The air is filled with noisy outrage about the moral emergency of the day. We are, according to the leaders of every major politic...

The rural population dwindled even though many baby-boomers are retiring to the countryside, falling below 3 million for the first time. The Korea Rural Economic Institute Thursday said the rural populati...

Bullying at work may be much more serious than it appears. In a survey conducted by the job portal Saramin on 2,975 office workers early this year, 45 percent of respondents said that bullying occurs in t...

Modern children 'lack the attention to read Dickens' A generation of schoolchildren lack the skills needed to read Dickens after being “reared on dreadful television programmes”, a leading author has warn...

A mysterious illness is causing calves to bleed to death on German farms. Veterinarians are stumped over what is causing the deaths: vaccines, genetically modified feed or perhaps even the first mother's ...

Trace amounts of leukemia-linked carcinogens were found in semiconductor-producing factories of Samsung Electronics Co. and other chipmakers, a governmental authority said Monday. “We found that cancer-ca...

Pope 'exorcised two men in the Vatican', claims new book Pope Benedict unwittingly performed an exorcism of two men possessed by the Devil in the very heart of the Vatican, according to the Catholic Church...

Nearly half of UK children under the age of 12 are using Facebook despite being too young to do so, according to a new piece of research. Facebook requires its members to be at least 13 years-old to use ...

Salut souverainistes. For those wanting more details on the euro break-up plan drafted by French economists, here is the link to the L’Observatoire de L’Europe website. A few extracts, loosely translated...

*Buck & Chuck* Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley hasn't exactly been some flaming prairie populist. The Wall Street/K Street axis knows he can always be counted on to do exactly what they tell him to do. Always...

About a dozen officers responded and moved all customers outside. They say the problem was a classic dilemma: supply and demand. There were 150 customers, but only 90 pairs of shoes for sale. They sold o...

With beach landings, 25 naval ships and an air assault, the United States and eight other countries are staging a major amphibious exercise on the US East Coast this week, fighting a fictional enemy that ...

The Senate has passed legislation that includes a provision allowing airports to replace TSA screeners with private security, opening the door for the widely loathed federal agency to be marginalized from...

(Reuters) - China is scouring the world for alternative oil supplies to replace a fall in its imports from Iran, as it seeks to negotiate lower prices from Tehran, and has been drawing heavily on Saudi Ar...

Argentine president, Cristina Kirchner, has announced Argentina will appeal to the United Nations over the Falklands Islands, claiming Britain had militarised the South Atlantic in a speech in Buenos Aire...

A California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans. The issue arises from a lawsuit filed by...

A group of Republican lawmakers is protesting the removal a reference to God in the patch logo for the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The 35 lawmakers, led by Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), wrote ...

CADDO PARISH, LA (KSLA) - The Caddo Parish Commissioner pushing for a ban on pajamas in public is not backing down. Michael Williams' proposal hasn't even been introduced yet, but it stirred up a lot o...

PAKISTAN yesterday warned Britain to help stop the American "Drone Wars" that are slaughtering hundreds of its innocent civilians. The nuclear power chillingly declared it "has the means" to retaliate un...

Two sisters have been charged in St. Croix County Court with sexually assaulting a man with a pliers and giving him urine to drink. Valerie M. Bartkey, 24, and Amanda L. Johnson, 17, both of Somerset are ...

Gunmen loyal to President Bashar al Assad murdered three entire families in Homs on Tuesday night, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The families were shot dead in their...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 9.4 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:39:37 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 268 km (166 miles) South of Sorong, Papua...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 25.3 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:30:37 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 333 km (206 miles)...

A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 160 km (99.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:57:17 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 297 km (184.1 miles) East of ...

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:57:26 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) Northeast of Kirkagaç, Turk...

* "As the Earth Allows the Rain: Sitting with Feelings"* by The DailyOm Taking the time now to sit with your feelings and acknowledge them will save you much distress down the road. It can take great cour...

Sanctions: They Worked Against Saddam. Why Not Against The Tyrants in Israel And America? I don't believe in sanctions. Hell, I don't even believe in the United Nations because it is a fraud and a lie. A...

"Sometimes, you can put some night sky in your art. Captured above Japan earlier this month, a picturesque night sky was photographed behind a picturesque frosted leaf. The reflecting ice crystals on the l...

I am always surfing through different websites and articles in my constant search for new and interesting material that I want to present to my own readers right here in this blog. I usually take a very ...

*“Wiggling A Finger”* by Chet Raymo “Do a little exercise for me. Stick out your arm in front of you. Now wiggle your index finger from side to side. Now bend it back and forth. Now wiggle your pinkie. "...

"Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the f...

“In 2003 the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.” - http://www...

Chuck Wild, Liquid Mind III, “Balance” (Galaxies) "I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so com...

House Floor today: Greg Walden (R-OR): ...some of the conferees were not available to meet because they weren't exactly in the country. So that wasn't going to happen until we were both back in session. N...

No new information was reported about the escalating issues at Fukushima building unit 2. Another unit is also having a significant increase in heat, but the unit number seems to change in the Tepco and ...

[image: Map of All Mercury Emissions from U.S. Coal-fired Power Plants, November 2011. EPA / Environment America] By Sue Sturgis 2 November 2011 Rank of coal-fired power plants among America's biggest s...

CRISTINA IS NOT HAPPY. According to the *Scotsman*, *"Argentina in UN protest at warship in Falklands"*. ARGENTINA’S President Cristina Fernandez last night vowed to complain formally to the UN Securit...

*"Superbug Pneumonia: 37 States, 50% Mortality Rate"* By ActivistPost "This is possibly our biggest infection control dilemma yet. Although cases of this particular pneumonia infection have been on the ri...

Bolivian President Evo Morales; United Native Americans at Occupy United Nations in San Francisco: Bad Bear's photo of Peltier rally in Reno on Saturday.*Censored News passes its 1 million hits mark, with...

*“Old Man, Old Man”* "Young men, not knowing what to remember, Come to this hiding place of the moons and years, To this Old Man. Old Man, they say, where should we go? Where did you find what you remember...

"British used a fake rock in Moscow spying" New York Times January 20, 2012 LONDON - A former British senior official has confirmed *Russian accusations * that the *British spy service tried to use a fake ...

*Plus a confidential to Shelly A.: Give it all up for Noot* *by Ken* "Sign of G.O.P. Unease With Romney," eh. Ya think? (Not to be outdone, the *Washington Post* today has Dan Balz exploring "Mitt Romney...

* "New DHS Report: If You Love "Individual Liberty" Of If You * *"Believe In Conspiracy Theories" You Are A Potential Terrorist"* by Michael Snyder “Do you love America? Are you against a one world economy...

Not that it should be unexpected, but one of the weirdest claims coming out of the right-wing cadre of Republican governors these days-- you know, the guys who are firing public employees as fast as they...

Much is written of the Rothschild banking dynasty. For many, this family is seen as the focal point of the international menace we know as Zionism. Certainly the dynasty have been key movers in world ev...

I voted for Newt here in Florida but am thrilled by Santorum's victory. This is a victory for conservatives. In the general election, I'll support any one of the 3 conservative candidates out of the 4 in t...

*I'm sorry the recent titles of my posts have trended towards the potty, but when that's what you are working with.... * "Islamist militants admit to London bomb plot" by Alan Cowell and John F. Burns | ...

*I hope he used a **toilet**. * "UK judge grants bail to Muslim radical" Associated Press" February 07, 2012 LONDON - A British court ruled yesterday that an extremist cleric described as one of Europe’s...

*A few years back, when global warming was near the top of the national and global agendas, a surprising new activist suddenly took the field: the Pentagon. In 2009, it called climate change a “threat” t...

Interesting post HERE on the DT from Ed West concerning the BBC; "The difference between the makers of Fox’s political programmes and the BBC is that the former believe they are in a battle of ideas while ...

A public opinion poll of Greek citizens show they've lost patience with their political leaders and want new elections, as Greek party leaders continue their delayed talks on a second EU/IMF bailout. Joann...

(Reuters) - European air safety officials extended checks for Airbus A380 wing cracks to the entire superjumbo fleet on Wednesday and said the widespread defects could pose a safety risk if left unremedie...

What you're looking at appeared in full page format in the *Sydney Morning Herald. *It was published in reaction to a call by whacko global warming denier Lord Monckton for Australia's "super rich" to f...

(Reuters) - Syria's army pounded the rebel city of Homs on Wednesday as Turkey sought international action to protect civilians from former ally President Bashar al-Assad, a move that risks the wrath ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday enlisted five EU nations to help crack down on offshore tax evasion by Americans and ease the burdens the effort has imposed on many banks and financi...

It is announced that the native puppet Stephen Harper is *visiting* his colonial masters in China in order to further enhance the flow of raw materials from the Canadian colonies. Some observers suspect th...

HANOI, Feb 8 (NNN-VNS) — Vietnam’s Department of Animal Health has warned that there is a high risk of a large-scale outbreak of bird flu without drastic preventive measures in the near future. Bird flu ...

A Mississippi State University researcher has uncovered the first molecular evidence linking live poultry markets in China to human H5N1 avian influenza. Henry Wan, an assistant professor in systems biol...

*— Dassault Rafale —* 450 MILLION DOLLARS EACH, somewhere around that, is the cost of acquisition and service of Canuck F-35's over their projected lifespan, for a total around 30 billion dollars. OUCH! ...

*"We Lie With Statistics: MSM (Inflation)"* by Karl Denninger "It just never stops, does it? "The numbers are proving Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s critics wrong. More than a year after Repu...

Bhubaneswar: At least 38,000 poultry birds were killed in three daysn the capital city following detection of the H5N1 virus at the Government of India’s Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO). ...

US biosecurity board expert warns against details of H5N1 bird flu getting into wrong hands. The bioterrorism expert responsible for censoring scientific research which could lead to the creation of a dev...

POLITICS - The concept that wealth trickles down is a complete sham. Yes, technically, money flows in all directions of commerce. But tax cuts for the rich doesn't = the middle class and the poor making mo...

This link was posted at Enenews, which is inexplicably down now: Rising temperatures at Fukushima raise questions over stability of nuclear plant http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/08/fukushima-ris...

Lorne Gunter's article on today's release of short form Census data is so bad that it necessitates a response. Point-by-point: So the 2011 census results are being released today, or at least some results...

The Arizona Republic Feb 28, 2012 p. A2 The short article quotes "activists" who claim the contamination in Nigeria is "the worst outbreak of lead poisoning in modern history." The article notes that "at ...

Sometimes you see something that just makes no sense. I stumbled across several web sites that proclaimed that Philip Corso was the highest-ranking officer to talk about Roswell. Overlooking that much of w...

WELLFLEET, Mass. -- Crews were working to rescue three more dolphins that stranded along Cape Cod beaches on Wednesday. The stranded animals were found inside Wellfleet Harbor at the Herring River. One of...

Newly formed underwater volcano offers scientific opportunities but has disastrous effect on island's fishing and tourism. The formation of an underwater volcano off the coast of El Hierro, the southern-...

*"When Emerging Markets Shape the Developed World"* by Bill Bonner “America is back,” said the President of all the Americans, “Anyone who tells you America is in decline or that our influence has waned, ...

A series of minor earthquakes which hit off Reykjanes in southwest Iceland last night and appeared to have subsided around 10 am picked up intensity and continued until 2 pm. Currently, there is no notabl...

The Natural History Museum in London, which has acquired the rare Martian meteorite, plans to unlock its secrets. Heralded by sonic booms and a fireball, the paperback-sized lump of Martian rock smashed i...

Of course the good news is that with Santorum's three (highly suspicious) wins last night, Romney's presumed ascendency to the nomination is over. Now it's a race, and Ron Paul is still very much in it des...

At least 10 people have been killed and more than 20 people injured when a car bomb exploded near a cafe in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, police say. A police commander told the BBC it was a suicide attac...

David Gibert's Love and Struggle:A brother with a furious mindBy Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / February 8, 2012Also see Mumia Abu-Jamal's review of David Gilbert's Love and Struggle on The Rag Blog.[Love and S...

Author and former member of the Weather Underground, David Gilbert, is a prisoner at the Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, N.Y. Photo from Indybay.com.David Gilbert's Love and Struggle:Days of rage, reb...

[image: Meteorologist Jeff Masters. cchronicle.com] By Christine Shearer 6 February 2012 If you are interested in weather, chances are you have visited Weather Underground and read the posts of its dir...

A Missouri teenager who was 15 when she was accused of killing her 9-year-old neighbor -- just to see what it felt like -- was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison. The case's matter-of-fact brutality r...

Residents of Homs say the Syrian army is carrying out a ferocious bombardment against helpless civilians. Residents in Homs said on Wednesday that the noose was tightening around their besieged city, wit...

At the end of last year John Nichols did a piece for *The Nation* called The Progressive Honor Roll of 2011. They gave Raúl Grijalva the title "Most Valuable Representative." Not just the most valuable in...

A rare species of seabird once considered extinct has been found in Japan's Ogasawara Islands, researchers have announced. A group of researchers from the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute ...

Author and former member of the Weather Underground, David Gilbert, photographed at the Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, N.Y. Photo from Indybay.com.Days of Rage, Rebellion and RevolutionBy Mumia Abu-Ja...

Hello and happy Wednesday! How did your week of letting your kind words be heard go? I have to be honest... mine did not go so well. I was doing well and then it all just kind of fell apart. At very least...

Mitt Romney enters today...in excellent shape. To be sure, he's already lost out on the goal of sweeping to an easy nomination in January and he's been forced to fight through Super Tuesday...but that happ...

Port Stanley, Falkland Islands (CNN) -- Britain on Wednesday dismissed a complaint from Argentina about the "militarization of the South Atlantic" as tensions rise over the Falkland Islands, over which th...

People in Homs have said the latest attack on their city is the worst in five days of shelling, and many fear the Syrian government's forces are preparing to launch a ground assault. In the areas of Bab...

*It May be Overpriced Crap But We're Good with It. * The man now in charge of the Pentagon's weapons purchases has lambasted the F-35 programme, denouncing it as "*acquisition malpractice*." "*I can spend ...

*Well, the newer and higher figure is real: the lower one may be from a silly yet pedagogical calculation of a SuperBowl organizers' anomaly by Sean Carroll but it's not far from the obsolete value (arou...

A top Iranian military official is activily aiding the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in suppressing popular unrest throughout the country, a top member of the National Syrian Council said on Mond...

That's right. Apparently the FDA has no limits on the amount of lead found in cosmetics, although it does limit the lead content that can be found in the color ingredients used in cosmetics. This is an ...

If I would be choosing among two otherwise identical candidates, I would choose the evolutionist. Although it plays a paramount role in our understanding of the pillars of biology and any historical scien...

Iraq and Afghanistan are being denied sovereignty. They are essentially colonial subjects of the US, as dramatically evidenced by this article in the Washington Post: CIA digs in as Americans withdraw fr...

Adam Greene is on his stomach as a pack of police officers pile on him, driving their knees into his back and wrenching his arms and legs. One officer knees him in the ribs; another kicks him in the face...

[image: The Balonne-feeding Maranoa River breaks its banks at Cashmere West station about 20km upstream of St George, Queensland, Australia, 9 February 2012. Lyndon Mechielsen / The Australian] By Andre...

*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012* *Would you have a beer with this strategist:* Monday evening, Chris Hayes guest-hosted for Rachel Maddow. At one point, he interviewed Celinda Lake, a well-known, high-rankin...

Guest Post by Joel Oestreich A few days ago I met the woman in the attached photograph. Her name is Karima. She is a college graduate who was born a male and, at 21, had gender reassignment surgery. Some ...

By: Duane Craig As far back as 1994, people living near the Madison Kipp Corporation in Madison, Wisc., have complained about health concerns such as eye/nose/throat irritation, metallic taste in the mout...

In case you missed it: Tory MP Stephen Woodworth wants human rights for unborn children A Conservative MP is defying his party’s leadership with a move to rewrite Canadian laws to extend human rights to u...

So last night there was a three state primary, essentially a three state killing spree of the second inevitable nomination of Willard Romney, a man who more resembles a Stepford born-and-bred game show ho...

(Reuters) - Iran is capable of carrying out military strikes on U.S. interests all around the world if the Islamic Republic is attacked by the United States, Iran's ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday....

(Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the world faced a growing "cult of violence" and Moscow must not let events like those in Libya and Syria be repeated in Russia, issuing a warnin...

*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012* *Why is Lawrence surprised:* We like to give credit where credit is due. Last night, on the O’Reilly Factor, Bernie Goldberg went off. He discussed an ongoing campaign to ma...

(Reuters) - The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean island resort, said on Wednesday he was forced out of power at gunpoint, prompting clashes between po...

(Reuters) - Anja has been scrubbing floors and washing dishes for two euros an hour over the past six years. She is bewildered when she sees newspapers hailing Germany's "job miracle." "My company exploi...

(Reuters) - As the Obama administration weighs worst-case scenarios for Syria, one stands out: a civil war that develops into a proxy battle between Arabs and the West on one side, and Russia and Iran on ...

(Reuters) - Greek parties will try on Wednesday to agree to a reform deal in return for a new EU/IMF rescue to avoid a chaotic default, after repeated delays which have prompted warnings that the euro...

(Reuters) - Hiding behind a culture of "omerta" -- the Italian word for the Mafia's code of silence -- would be deadly for the Catholic Church, the Vatican's top official for dealing with sexual abuse of ...

(Reuters) - Syrian forces thrust into the rebellious city of Homs on Wednesday, killing dozens of civilians by the accounts of opposition activists, and Turkey appeared to be preparing a new push agai...

Image: Libya after Gaddafi, is it any better? Amid growing outrage over civilian casualties in Syria, there are ever more urgent calls to aid -- or at least protect -- the uprising against President Basha...

It's the late, great Joe Raposo's birthday, born February 8, 1937. Wonderful, wonderful, songs. Right to the good stuff: 1. Dave Weigel has fun. Not bad. 2. Steve Kornacki, before last night, on the GOP...

A low-slung skyline. A slate gray sky. Rumbling. Close your eyes. It could be the sound of rolling thunder. Instead, it's another shell falling on a neighborhood in Homs. "You don't know if the rocket i...

When the Arab League asked for U.N. Security Council endorsement of its call for a new government in Syria and sought the imposition of sanctions to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Russians...

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player It’s the end of the world as they know it. For a growing number of Americans, preparing for the end of days is a full-time business, whether the e...

Don't even know where to begin with this IG report ~Library Chronicles Garland Robinette's loan is a low priority for lender Fred Heebe~James Gill Just another Hump Day at the office here at Slabbed New Me...

Emails posted on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission website after the Fukushima disaster last March have revealed the agency was kept in the dark about the scale of the crisis. The correspondence, po...

*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012* *Part 3—At the Post, flub never dies:* We’re all sons and daughters of Flubber now! For that reason, we might want to understand the way flub culture works. First law in the...

Four men went on trial today accused of killing orangutans and other endangered primates at a palm oil plantation in Borneo. Phuah Chuan Hun, manager of the plantation in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Born...

Right Wingers to Learn the “Koch Truth” For those of us that have been fighting the regime of the Koch brothers and their friends – to us, this would be self-evident, but I feel I need to point it out to ...

A Nasa spacecraft has captured an avalanche of fine ice and dust thundering over a cliff near Mars's north pole. It's not the first avalanche captured by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance ...

A Chinese father has sparked anger after posting a video online which showed him forcing his son to run around and do push-ups in the snow, wearing only his underpants. Filmed in New York on Chinese New...

Two youths who started the M1 fire 'high fived' each other when they realised what destruction they had caused, a court heard today. When Luke Matthews, 18, heard how much news coverage the fire, which cl...

A pilot on an Indonesian airline was arrested just hours before he was due to command a flight after testing positive for crystal meth. The 44-year-old pilot for Lion Air, Indonesia's largest domestic air...

A bill that would make the death sentence mandatory for gays who are 'repeat offenders' was reintroduced in Uganda's parliament today. The controversial move likely to draw fresh condemnation from Western...

*(Not the progressive)* As Markos pointed out at Daily Kos yesterday, the Ohio Republican Party is looking like it's going to the bottom of the lake in November. But 'til then, they're still running the s...

Mark Mardell addresses the difficult subject of US foreign Policy without committing the new BBC crime of “Value Judgement.” Poor Obama is in a sticky spot. In a period of of electioneering, he must wrest...

BBC journalists have been told not to call hate preacher Abu Qatada an 'extremist'. Using such a term to describe the man once called 'Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe', is making a 'value judg...

Details of secret experiments by scientists who have created the most deadly form of flu in the lab will inevitably be leaked - potentially into the hands of terrorists - an expert has warned. A furore e...

Just like ALEC - right wingers experimented on Minnesotans last night at the caucus in one town. The right wing media in Minneapolis (and that is all we have) is falling all over themselves this morning t...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Turkey-Iran Border Region at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:28:59 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (11.8 miles) East...

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:51:36 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeas...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Ecuador at a depth of 69.8 km (43.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:54:43 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) ESE of Esme...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:06:27 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeas...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 12:01:37 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) West...

(Santorum won all three states last night... Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, swing states, where Republicans sent a clear message to GOP Central: NO LIKE MITT! Voters were uncomfortable with the "I...

*Scientists in the US have successfully made human being brain cells in the lab that are a correct copy of hereditarily caused Parkinson's disease. To make the human neurons the scientists used a techniq...

*Internet addresses which tie to the video streams have been posted to a variety of admired message board sites. Feeds from thousands of Trendnet home security cameras have been breached, allowing any we...

*KDE is a Linux desktop environment* that rather unexpectedly has stepped forward as a suitable alternative for the desktop experiments and developments from Ubuntu's Unity, Gnome 3 shell and (Linux Mint)...

*A scientist from the University of Queensland used time lapse photography to capture the footage. Coral might appear solid and inanimate, but unexpected new footage of a mushroom coral inflating itself ...

According to researchers noise from ships stresses whales researchers have measured stress hormones in whale faeces, and found they raised with the density of shipping. B*ut the new study, reported in th...

Up to 120 defence force personnel will leave Brisbane on Wednesday to help flooded inland towns with the massive clean-up task. Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts says he hopes their arrival will b...

Image: ABC The South Korean government says it has written to a dozen Sydney councils asking for any information they might have about Korean nationals who are involved in prostitution at local brothels. ...

Image: AAP An E.coli warning has been issued to some parts of the NSW Central Coast after the bacteria were detected in the water supply. Residents in Kariong are being advised to boil all water used for ...

Image: AAP A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for parts of NSW, with residents being told to prepare for large hailstorms and flash flooding. The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) issued the warning ...

A group of men has stormed the Syrian embassy in Canberra, smashing up the ground floor, as protesters attacked five other Syrian embassies in Europe and the Middle East. Australian Federal Police say ex...

There are grave fears for a woman whose car was swept away in flood waters in the inland Queensland town of Roma. But rescuers managed to save a boy who was also in the car when it was driven into the wa...

Image: AAP Communities across northern NSW are assessing widespread damage to homes and roads on Saturday as easing weather conditions have led to floodwaters receding for the first time in five days. Bu...

Bandung - SA (37), patients who died of suspected bird flu in Hasan Sadikin Hospital this afternoon, Tuesday (02/07/2012), will be buried to a TPU Ciburuy, tomorrow. The family did not allowed to see or...

Opposition activists in Syria claim dozens of civilians have been killed by government forces in the central city of Homs following another night of shelling. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Hu...

As the continent continues to experience social, political and economic upheaval, we ask if African unity is achievable. The 18th African Union (AU) summit ends on Monday in Ethiopia with 40 heads of st...

Here's a story that the BBC seems to a tad reluctant to cover for some reason. B-BBC contributor Alan observes; "No mention of this story on the BBC website despite it being on 'Drudge' hours ago and th...

Beijing, China - From July 2005 until this past December, China's renminbi (RMB) appreciated steadily. But then the RMB fell unexpectedly, hitting the bottom of the daily trading band set by the Peoples' ...

Water management is a major problem in the country where many farmers risk losing their crops and income. While some areas in Thailand are still reeling from last year's floods, other areas are sufferi...

We ask if the US should reconsider its 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' approach to crime and punishment. The US has the highest prison population in the world - some of whom have been subjected to ...

The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting copyright infringement. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a global effort to protect intellectual property ...

More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published Sunday in Nature Climate Change. Current projectio...

Trends can be difficult to detect in real-world data, and the noisier the data, the tougher the task becomes. A longer time series can help limit the impact of noise, but these can be difficult to come by...

With its latest acquisitions from Washington and Europe, the Saudi Air Force will have more fighter-bombers of more advanced models that the Israeli Air Force. Deep concern over this was recently relayed ...

House prices have failed to rise in any given month since the summer of 2010. House prices have failed to record any monthly increase for a year-and-a-half, with the pressure on household budgets and th...

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's greatest writer, claims that legalising drugs is the only way to end the devastating violence that has claimed 50,000 lives in five years. Latin America reveres its authors like...

While IDF analysts at the 2012 Herzliya Conference describe the weapons aimed at Israel, instructors teach kids to put on their gas masks. While top military analysts at the 2012 Herzliya Conference descri...

Home Front Command may run out of protective kits in three months, leaving millions vulnerable to unconventional warfare. Unprepared: The Home Front Command is poised to run out of gas masks within month...

*Website for this image** * The job of the Royal Airforce is to indulge in sex orgies, kill innocent civilians and help run concentration camps? *1.* Foxy Roxy is a former RAF sergeant. Transsexual Foxy R...

North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un has made a visit to a privileged school for the children of the party and military elite in a bid to bolster his image. Video provided by state media KRT showed Kim'...

There are moments when you listen to the BBC when the clouds suddenly part, the sun breaks through and the person being interviewed layeth a smackdown on the BBC interviewer. Such was the case this morni...

I had a very strange experience yesterday evening on the Tube. I sat down next to someone without looking who it was, got my Kindle out, and was startled to hear them ask "Good book, mate?" I looked over...

The raging debate over Mario Draghi’s credit rescue has refused to die down. A disturbingly large number of credit experts warn that the ECB life-line is not the "game-changer" that the markets seem to t...

The renewal of American leadership can be felt across the globe... From the coalitions we've built to secure nuclear materials, to the missions we've led against hunger and disease; from the blows we've d...

The Federal Reserve has now committed to keeping short-term interest rates near zero for almost three more years. They have also committed to a 2% inflation target. Some say QE3 is just around the corner,...

ALCAHUANO, Chile — Eric Pineda, a dock agent in this old port south of Santiago, peered deep into the Achernar’s hold at a measly 10 tons of jack mackerel — the catch after four days in waters once so ric...

Weakened by chronic infighting and the demise of its long-time financier Moammar Gadhafi, the African Union is turning instead to the embrace of its richest new ally: China. Col. Gadhafi, the Libyan dict...

An average salaried worker with a family of more than two would have to save 10 years of salaries to lease an apartment in Seoul's upscale Seocho district, a survey shows. According to property website D...

The number of apartments under W200 million in the Seoul metropolitan area dropped by 320,000 in the past five years (US$1=W1,124). According to property information provider Dr. Apt, out of 3.16 million ...

A study of 642 junior and senior high school students by a team of researchers from Catholic University St. Mary's Hospital showed that 9.5 percent or 61 were addicted to the Internet, most of them to onl...

Fewer people in Seoul discuss their problems with family members. The proportion of Seoul residents who said they do not turn to relatives with personal issues nearly doubled from 8.1 percent in 2007 to 1...

Media articles predicting an Israeli war on Iran are just fearmongering designed to increase sanctions and hysteria. Washington, DC - Talk about deja vu all over again. In September 2010 The Atlantic's J...

Steven Pinker, author of "The Better Angels of Our Nature", argues this may be the most peaceful era in human existence. Despite the seemingly endless stream of news stories focusing on violence, crime a...

NEWPORT BEACH - A new economic order is taking shape before our eyes, and it is one that includes accelerated convergence between the old Western powers and the emerging world's major new players. But the...

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - From downtown shops that stock cheap clothing and shoes that fall apart after one wear, to mining concessions in platinum, gold and diamonds - the Chinese finger is now in virtually e...

Rick Santorum wins Minnesota and Colorado, and tosses in the Missouri beauty contest to boot. Yikes! I'm with everyone else: I didn't see this coming. In the last couple of days, sure -- the polling didn...

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:08:43 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeas...

*REGINA -- Critical in the subtle battle for the hearts and minds of those in the so-called "new Saskatchewan" has been the portrayal of the self-entitled left of the "old Saskatchewan". Or at least, that...

With the allocation of gas masks and bomb shelter information to embassies Israel, as well as a marked deterioration in relations over the past several days between countries in the Mideast including Iran,...

Russia’s General Staff gears up for large-scale strategic military exercises in view of possible Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran. Russia’s Defense Ministry has begun preparations for the Caucasus 2012 s...

Some 2 million Americans adolescents experienced a bout of Mental Health page on depression" major depression last year, but only about a third of them got any help in dealing with the sadness, irritabili...

Working 11 hours a day may not only make you more tired -- it could also make you more depressed. A study of civil servants in England found that working excessive hours was linked with more cases of maj...

UCLA's Anderson School of Management and Stanford University are among more than 100 colleges using Turnitin's database to detect plagiarism in application essays. The student's admissions essay for Bost...

Reporting from Atlanta— Ronda Storms is a Republican state senator from Florida. She is also a mom who buys the groceries for her family of four. A few months ago, Storms, 46, started noticing that some f...

A recent IRS report showing that current and retired federal employees owe more than $3.4 billion in income taxes is fueling a drive on Capitol Hill to fire -- and prohibit the hiring of -- tax delinquent...

Another in an occasional series in which Wall Street Law Blog posts excerpts from primary source documents that flat out contradict Wall Street's revisionist history of the financial crisis... Top execut...

The escalating fuel crisis pushed bakeries to close their doors on Thursday, as protesters in several governorates blocked railways and clashed in queues outside gas stations and butane gas depots. In Mi...

The official line from the United States and the European Union is that Tehran must be punished for continuing its efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. The punishment: sanctions on Iran's oil exports, whi...

The currency wars are heating up. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke promised speculators he would keep interest rates low until 2014: 'To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ens...

The battle over biometrics between the Unique Identification Authority of India and India's home ministry has ended in a compromise, according to a report in NDTV, India (25 Jan). The Unique Identificati...

After 40 years of economic growth based on debt, the era of “debt capitalism” has come to an end, says Wolfgang Streeck. The Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Col...

The GCC should seize the initiative and propose talks if western powers are unable to start negotiations with Iran. In spite of bluster from belligerent hawks in the United States and Israel, it is highl...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not abandon the multibillion-dollar Iran gas pipeline project, despite the threat of sanctions from the United States if Islamabad went ahead with the plan. “There is no change...

The Obama campaign is probably too smart to take much solace in the nice-looking chart above showing his popularity rebounding among blue collar whites. Good headway but these people, while understanding ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not abandon the multibillion-dollar Iran gas pipeline project, despite the threat of sanctions from the United States if Islamabad went ahead with the plan. “There is no change...

BEIJING — A Chinese maritime surveillance aircraft based in Shanghai will expand its coverage this year to include areas of the East China Sea disputed with Japan, according to recent reports by local med...

Despite harsh weather conditions, the Arctic is becoming a global hot spot, with non-Arctic countries like China, India and Brazil pursuing “observer” status on the Arctic Council – an intergovernmental b...

A US drone has killed 10 suspected militants in northern Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, according to security officials. The drone programme, which is part of US counter-terrorism efforts, was...

Argentina has vowed to formally complain to the United Nations about Britain sending one of its most modern warships to the Falkland Islands. The country's President Cristina Fernandez announced plans t...

A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck the Gulf of Santa Catalina, California at a depth of just 0.9 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:30:47 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (6 mile...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Svalbard Region at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:37:03 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 201 km (124.6 miles) Southwest of B...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 64.6 km (40.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:30:34 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) West of Tapac...

I grew up as a massive fan of the Beatles, and I felt a great loss when John Lennon was gunned down in 1980 in New York City. One of his greatest songs that had a great meaning for me was "Imagine", and i...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the King Country Region, New Zealand at a depth of 250 km (155 miles), the quake hit at 10:31:05 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Sou...

Some say it is an Orwellian world now - others say it's like going Through the Looking Glass...or Down the Rabbit's Hole. Some call it, Cognitive Dissonance. One thing is certain. We are being lied to, ...

*Inequality between rich and poor highlighted by UN panel* 6 February 2012 Ming Hwee Chong, pictured center, representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations, addresses a panel di...

Canada is Israeli occupied territory. That, my dear readers, and especially those living right here in Canada is absolute fact and easily proven by the actions of the criminal Harper regime in Ottawa. Ou...

"Although you've surely seen it, you might not have noticed it. During a cloudless twilight, just before sunrise or after sunset, part of the atmosphere above the horizon appears slightly off-color, slight...

Workers on BHP Billiton’s new building in Perth, West Australia, replicated the famous ‘Lunch Atop a Skyscaper’ photo from the thirties of workers having their lunch on a steel beam high above Manhattan....

“Love is about choices. It's about putting down the poison and the dagger and making your own happy ending, most of the time; and that sometimes, despite all your best choices and all your best intentions...

I am constantly searching for material that shows exactly WHO the real criminals are on planet Earth right now, and how they have the insane goal of world domination within their sights, and thus the tot...

*"There Was..."* by Chet Raymo "Richard Wright's classic 1945 memoir "Black Boy" recounts his childhood in the racially charged South of the 1920s. It is a heartbreaking tale of poverty, hunger, prejudic...

*Scott and Vanessa Wilk and their two children* Today Vanessa Wilk, a prominent Santa Clarita Republican and wife of GOP Assembly candidate and college board trustee Scott Wilk, himself a former top staff...

[image: Officials from Fukushima prefecture collect soil to check for radioactive contamination. AP / Yomiuri Shimbun] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 7 February 2012 There was a piece of news about 20,000...

[image: The sun rises over the Swiss and French Alps, seen from a snow-covered vineyard next to Lake Geneva, in February 2012. BBC] By Steve Connor 4 February 2012 The bitterly cold weather sweeping Bri...

"Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides." - Shakespeare, King Lear. "After religion, shame is the second bond that keeps nations united, just as shame...

Why the AGs Must Not Settle: Robo-signing Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg Posted on February 4, 2012 by Ellen Brown Original here A foreclosure settlement between five major banks guilty of “robo-signing...

...not quite the same the way as the *folk tune* and definitely more Dave's purview, but this seems to be what happens when a bulk carrier full of raw logs meets *70 knot winds and associated water*. Found...

*Then they are made of the same stuff as AmeriKan newspapers. * "UK tabloid editor defends his ethics" Associated Press, January 13, 2012 LONDON - A former tabloid newspaper editor told Britain’s media eth...

[image: image] Several inches of global warming have now covered Europe for eleven days. Here’s the tragedy in a headline: *Europe death toll now 400 from icy weather.* Can we now, please, begin to re...

It seems the tables have turned. Russia has replaced America as the nation that protects the free world from the evil oppressors. History is filled with irony. Video: Former General Says Russia Will No...

"Scots’ vote on independence from Britain sought for 2014" January 11, 2012|By Robert Hutton LONDON - Alex Salmond, Scotland’s nationalist first minister, said yesterday that he aims to call a referendum ...

"2 men get prison in ’93 death in Britain" January 05, 2012|By Karla Adam LONDON - A judge sentenced two white men to at least 14 years in prison yesterday for killing a black teenager 18 years ago, a case...

Colorado and Minnesota Republicans hold their caucuses tonight (and Missouri Republicans hold a beauty contest primary). How should the press cover it? It's tricky. One extreme is a tweet I just saw from ...

Northern Overexposure: JP Muckraker Slabbed Blog Slapped for Defamation Against Gay Canadian Couple ~NOLA DEFENDER To fight violent crime, New Orleans may need to get the lead out~Mark Moseley Editilla~Ne...

Preparing for Iran strike? Foreign embassies in Israel have recently started to formulate contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from the Jewish State in case of a missile attack on Israel. Senior o...

[image: image] That’s become the question of this political term, hasn’t it, the answering of which is going to hold up the government’s flagship sell-a-little-bit programme for its power companies: Can...

﻿﻿﻿Click arrows below to watch videos, Part I and II *Part 1 - Occupy the United Nations INDIGENOUS DAY OF RESISTANCE January 27, 2012* San Francisco - The Native American Community, with support from th...

Richard Black attracts a lot of attention in these pages. Biased BBC's Alan notes... "You have probably heard that the science is settled, that the debate is over....because the consensus is that AGW is r...

Our bed broke. Like snapped in half broke. I am happy to be married to a handy person because he was able to mend it with some new wood and screws. The biggest casualty was our wedding glasses that were...

A B-BBC reader from north of the border has this cry of despair for BBC Scotland; "The BBC Scotland is an organization that is so biased to one religion & a minority community in Scotland that is has no ...

*The Ninth Circuit panel says that legally established rights can't be taken away by ballot proposition just because the organizers don't approve of same-sex couples.* *by Ken* Let's be clear at the outs...

[image: Abu Qatada, the Islamic extremist] Thoughts? "The BBC has told its journalists not to call Abu Qatada, the al-Qaeda preacher, an “extremist” in order to avoid making a “value judgment”, the cor...

* The President of Greek Cyprus, in Jerusalem* *Report: Israel will ask to station jets in Cyprus* Israeli and Greek Cypriot officials are to discuss allowing the Israeli Air Force to station jets in Cypr...

For a Tuesday, it's been a pretty eventful news day. So, culled from all over the intertubes box comes these news items straight into Pottersville Central. ------------------------------ Perhaps the bigg...

Margene Bullcreek*Halting corporate and US environmental attacks on Indian lands* By Brenda Norrell Double click on schedule to enlargeCensored News LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Speakers at the Native American Foru...

If you watched the Super Bowl, not that there's really something wrong with you if you didn't, you might have enjoyed the half time show. Madonna staged an elaborate presentation and did a decent job of ...

*"Why Personal Privacy is Now Public Enemy #1"* by Joel Bowman "Yes…he’s probably listening… We’d prefer to invite you to a quieter place, Fellow Reckoner…somewhere we could talk in private. A speakeasy, ...

NPR had a story this morning about the opponents of Hugo Chávez coming together to put up a single candidate to face the dictator in October's scheduled presidential election. The opposition to Venezuel...

The cargo ship Dry Beam is moored at Ogden Point for repairs after losing part of its load when it was hit by a rogue wave about 480 kilometres off northern Vancouver Island on Thursday. The wave, believe...

What goes up must come down. Who knew that might be the epitaph of America's once mighty Middle Class? Robert Reich sees through the latest unemployment numbers. They may look good but they're a harbi...

The entire staff at a school in California have been suspended while authorities investigate allegations of child sex abuse. All 88 teachers and 40 support staff are being temporarily replaced at Miramon...

I want to agree with Jonathan Chait, who argues there's nothing at all hypocritical about playing by the current campaign finance rules even as one attempts to change those rules in the future. However......

One feature of climate change is the erratic arrival of weather extremes. Australia, for example, is enduring its second year of massive flooding following many years of extreme drought. Meanwhile, Euro...

Patria.cz, a server for Czech investors, published a shortened Czech translation of Andrei Shleifer's essay called Seven things I learned about transition from communism Andrei Shleifer co-authored the Ru...

Pressure is rising on Greece's national unity government to agree tough reforms demanded by the country's lenders. The EU, IMF and European Central Bank have made further spending cuts, labour market ref...

We have a lot of coffee drinkers in our office. The receptionist and I bring in our own creamer - I bring in whole milk and the other person brings in International Delights. We are two of the lowest p...

By: Duane Craig Through the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. taxpayers helped Gulfport, Miss., complete an emergency cleanup of the Chemfax industrial site at Three Rivers and Creosote roads. The bil...

*“Is That Fear? (Bank Short Sales)”* by Karl Denninger “You have to wonder... "Banks, accelerating efforts to move troubled mortgages off their books, are offering as much as $35,000 or more in cash to d...

It'll be up to the US Supreme Court to decide the validity of California's ban on gay marriage. A US Federal appeals court has ruled the ban violates the US Constitution. "*...the panel found that Propos...

BRATTLEBORO -- Fish taken from a lake in northern Vermont had similar levels of strontium-90 and cesium-137 as fish taken from the Connecticut River near Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. Dur...

One Ukrainian coal miner was killed and nine were injured in a methane gas explosion at a coal mine in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, the emergency situations ministry reported Tuesday. The explo...

Farmers are being urged to spray for locusts as more become evident across areas of South Australia, including the mid-north. Biosecurity SA has had reports of high numbers near Narridy, Yacka and Spaldi...

Arne Duncan’s position on the use of value-added test scores seems to have changed in the last two years. In August, 2010, he seems to be saying that test score gains are a measure of teacher effectiveness...

VIENNA, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Higher than normal levels of radiation Iodine 131 was measured in the air in Austria but without danger to the public health, said the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety...

SANTIAGO, Feb 7 (NNN-Prensa Latina): The Chilean Ministry of Health declared a sanitary alert in the central southern region of Bio Bio on Monday, due to an outbreak of hantavirus in the zone. The measur...

The fake news story directs users to a video, which then asks them to update their video player. The 'updated player' is in fact a Trojan that infects their PC A fake news page saying, 'U.S. attacks Iran...

Sunday I was watching the Republican talk shows that show up on all the channels on Sunday mornings and happened to surf by George Will as he made the following statement. *This is the what a true Repu...

A teenage victim of sex assault hanged herself after her barrister broke strict legal rules and caused the first court case to collapse. Dana Baker, who was 16 when she died, hanged herself near a busy ro...

Today we're kicking off a new day for our Blue America chats. Same time as always-- 11am (PT) but on Tuesday's from now on. And what better way than to start with a populist icon whose grassroots congres...

Prophetic politics:Charting a healthy role for religion in public lifeBy Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / February 7, 2012[The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipatory Word, by Walter Brueg...

Charles Dickens turns 200 today - or he would have were he still alive. With my admittedly plebeian tastes in literature, Dickens and Twain are a complete banquet. "*You only have to look around our s...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Officials in Greece are under pressure to reach an agreement on a new bailout package, as the threat of a default hangs over the country. Prime Minister Lucas Papademos met with of...

CARS - China is mass producing cars and they're getting very good at copying other car manufacturers. Imagine being able to buy a Ford Mustang... it looks like a Mustang, it drives like a Mustang, heck it ...

Eco-sleight of hand may reach stratospheric proportions if Bill Gates and other members of his Club of Billionaires succeed in pushing geo-engineering as the solution to anthropogenic climate change. T...

Nobody likely envies the challenge President Barack Obama faces getting his “messaging” right on Iran. He must meet the demands of election-year politics and continue to press Tehran’s back to the wall ov...

*Read this on Daily Kos this morning* In summary, most Wisconsin Republicans in the state legilsature [sic]signed legal agreements promising not to discuss public legislation in public, distributed an int...

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:29:30 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) ENE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Re...

[image: The KS Endeavor fire at the Funiwa Field in Nigeria on 17 January 2012. Chevron] By Ejiofor Alike 7 February 2012 The damage caused by the fire on *KS Endeavour*, a drilling rig operated by FOD...

New over at the Plum Line, I ask whether Mitt Romney is about to go through a rough patch thanks to Tea Partiers in the House GOP conference. There's a long history of coordination, and lack of coordinatio...

Go Luxemburg! According to Michael Beckley, the United States should be deeply concernedabout the power-political position of Luxemburg, Denmark, Switzerland, and others. Okay, not really. But that's t...

Imagine. The weather we've been experiencing here in the southern U.S. not actually being a "good thing" for the rest of the world. (It's 70 degrees in February at the Carolina beaches, folks!) Imagine. An...

It is not yet clear whether Russian scientists have succeeded in their quest to drill into Lake Vostok. National media on Monday reported a breakthrough into the lake, the largest of more than 300 bodies...

If you had ever told me that a recipe containing orange juice and pork could be amazing I would have raised my eyebrows, but this is seriously delicious. It is the perfect combination of sweet and savory...

*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012 * *Does his basic claim make sense:* Unfortunately, the terrible grimy Peter Hoekstra is running for the senate from Michigan. On Sunday, during the Super Bowl, he aired a smal...

It's going to happen. We don't have any other choice. Growth, the crack cocaine of post-war industrialism in the Western World, has (pardon the pun) outgrown its social, economic and even political util...

William K. Black talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about financial fraud, starting with the Savings and Loan debacle up through the current financial crisis. Black explains how bank executives can use ...

The twitters are all worked up this morning about the announcement that Bob Kerrey will not, after all, be returning to Nebraska to run for the open Senate seat there. Now, Nebraska Democrats are certainly...

*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012* *When dumb things are said by great people:* Last Wednesday, the New York Times made a mistake. Unless you read the New York Times, in which case it was Gingrich’s fault. Wit...

*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012* *Part 2—Bruni frisks Romney’s great grandpa:* In recent decades, American pseudo-political discourse has largely been a study in flubs. Consider what happened when Candidate K...

Now that the Super Bowl game is over, I am hoping that the American public will finally turn their attention to more important matters, such as the criminal actions of their own government in being nothing...

Achille Mbembe is a social theorist who focuses on how sovereignty(exercised by governments or organizations) in the modern era adopts anattitude and policy orientation entailing the “instrumentalization...

American Scofflaw An FBI advisory aimed at Internet Cafe owners instructs businesses to report people who regularly use cash to pay for their coffee as potential terrorists. [image: FBI: Paying Cash For...

: Here is part one, where I argued that international relations as a field has become increasingly uncomfortable with the America’s post-Cold War hegemony and the level of force used in the GWoT, but…...

The famous waterways of Venice have frozen over as Europe continues to be gripped by a deadly chill. The big freeze has caused traffic problems throughout Europe, blocking roads and shutting down airport...

Russia's foreign minister said that President Assad is willing to seek a solution to the violence engulfing Syria - as his forces continue their attack on the city of Homs. After talks in Damascus this ...

Cao Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has sent an urgent dispatch on February 6 to all provinces and cities nationwide to urge implementation of proper measures to control an H5N1 vi...

Happy Birthday to Brad Hennessey, 32. He was still hanging in there in the minors, in the Astros system, in 2011; I'm rooting for him to make it back. And now the good stuff: 1. I'm fascinated by the data...

Lots of folks use war as analogy for football (US version) or football as analogy for war, such as the blitz starting with war going to football and going back to war. How about we take a key concept from...

*THE ARK IN SPACE* proclaims itself to be *"A Compendium of Creatures"*, which it is. Take a minute and check it out. The puddy-tat above? That's a *Manul – the Cat that Time Forgot*. Really. *ROUND* pu...

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